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### ActiveX Object

The ActiveX Object inserts an ActiveX control into your template or form. Once it inserts the control, PC-DMIS displays the Insert ActiveX Control dialog box.

Insert ActiveX Control dialog box

This dialog box allows you to select the type of control to be inserted from a list of known controls on your computer. The controls in the Object Type list are unique to each computer, based on the programs that computer has installed. ActiveX controls expand the possibilities of what you can do in a form or template. For example, you could insert a chart control and then with Visual BASIC code, pass measurement routine data to dynamically create the chart.

PC-DMIS ActiveX Controls

PC-DMIS ships with ActiveX controls, most of which are related to feature analysis. The feature analysis controls appear in certain cells of the GridControlObject on some of the standard labels that come with PC-DMIS. In general, the software uses these controls to display graphical analysis information. You can insert these into your own templates or forms from the Insert ActiveX Control dialog box.

The PC-DMIS ActiveX controls related to feature analysis are shown here with graphical examples:

BFANALYSISACTIVEX:

DIMANALYSISACTIVEX:

Dimension Report Linear:

Dimension Report Linear2 (Surfer NT Style Control):

Dimension Report Radial:

FeatureAnalysisActiveX:

The PC-DMIS ActiveX control not related to feature analysis is:

DataFileFormatControl
Allows the interpretation of .dat files (logo.dat, elogo.dat and header.dat) in your template based reports. See "Some PC-DMIS ActiveX Controls" and "Using .DAT Files in Generated Reports".

As with any other object, the PC-DMIS ActiveX object also contains properties, both standard and unique, that you can modify using the Properties dialog box. The topic below contains information on accessing those properties.

More:

Accessing an ActiveX Object’s Methods and Properties from Basic

Related Topics:

GridControlObject

Using PC-DMIS ActiveX Controls